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Word: flaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious flake unloads his home computer from a Mercedes station wagon with Connecticut plates, and Dad says something like. "So really, what does it take to get in He's got top-notch scores, will he make it?" They told us about this at proctor orientation but it hadn't seemed possible "Yes," I reply, "I can guarantee...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out For Harold And His Friends | 8/10/1982 | See Source »

...obvious flake unloads his home computer from a Mercedes station wagon with Connecticut plates, and Dad says something like, "So really, what does it take to get in? He's got top-notch scores; will he make it?" They told us about this at proctor orientation, but it hadn't seemed possible. "Yes," I reply, "I can guarantee...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Some $2.7 million worth of chips, the flake-size bits of silicon that are the brains of computers, was locked inside wire mesh cages that were surrounded by motion detectors, monitored by closed circuit television and watched by guards. The 498,000 chips were soon to be shipped to companies like Data General, Apple and Hughes Aircraft and would eventually find their way into video games, home computers and space program equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valley of Thefts | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...quiet last night at the Stowe Flake Inn in Stowe (where else?), Vermont, where the Harvard golf team spent the evening before the North district qualifying round for the ECAC Championships...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Look for ECAC Win After Strong Practice Round | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

...biggest advertiser on television. You can hear the commercials: Endorsed by the great Dr. Sigmund Freud. The inspiration of poets, artists, inventors! You too can be inspired, thanks to a stimulant revered as sacred eight centuries ago by the great Inca civilization. Start each day right with Snowghurt or Flake Flakes. A little Leaf instead of lettuce for lunch. Toot Sweet, come the Happy Hour. [Band music swells in crescendo.] Mayke it bet-tah with Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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